#143 Steve Goggins | FIRST 1100 LBS SQUAT, USPA, Powerlifting Legend
Dave Tate's Table Talk
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Steve Goggins joins Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast as a guest in the 143rd episode.
Founder and Coach of Goggins Force, Goggins served in the US Army from September 1983 until May 1990. While in the Army, he served in the 82nd Airborne and was a member of the Armed Forces Powerlifting Team.
He has competed in powerlifting for over 25 years and was the first powerlifter to squat 1100 pounds. Goggins now resides in Marietta, GA, and is the current state chairman of the USPA Powerlifting Organization.
He offers his programming and coaching and is available for seminars. He has been a personal trainer since he came out of service in 1990 and is certified through Cooper Institute in Dallas, TX.
Goggins Force: https://gogginsforce.com/
Goggins IG: https://www.instagram.com/thestevegoggins/
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| 0:15.8 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:20.0 | What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting |
| 0:22.4 | from the middle of the elite FTS wait room where the underground still thrives and you're part of the |
| 0:27.0 | crew. It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:46.5 | My guest today is steve gagan so i can just rip through real quick the the notes that i have here it's i i put him as powerlifting legend we can go into all the reasons why i think that |
| 0:51.6 | meat pro pro meat promoter ogan's a on psalm I'm fucking everything up and |
| 0:56.1 | I don't need to look at this right powerlifting legend meat promoter owner of gagan's force um 80 second |
| 1:03.2 | airborne right and the first person to squat and I have to apologize because I always cheat you |
| 1:10.6 | out of 2.1 pounds, right? |
| 1:13.2 | Because I always will write fucking 1,100. |
| 1:15.4 | 1,100, actually, 0.3. |
| 1:18.6 | Right. |
| 1:19.1 | So I've ripped you off 2.3 pounds. |
| 1:21.3 | How many? |
| 1:21.5 | 500 kilos. |
| 1:22.2 | Probably, yes. |
| 1:22.9 | 500 kilos. |
| 1:24.7 | And competed in the sport of power lifting from 1986 all the way until three |
| 1:32.3 | decades is pretty much what your career spanned and is now promoting meats and working with |
| 1:38.1 | lifters to be able to help them become better so in a nutshell that kind of covers it right |
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